Frans pretorius phd dissertation writing

Frans Pretorius (born 31 July ) is a South African and Canadian physicist, specializing in computer simulations in astrophysics and numerical solutions of Einstein's field equations.

He is professor of physics at Princeton University and director of the Princeton Gravity Initiative.

Biography

Pretorius sat for a in computer engineering in and an in physics in for his thesis, entitled Topics in Black Hole Physics under Werner Israel, at the University of Victoria.

He defended his Ph.D. in under Matthew Choptuik at the University of British Columbia.

Frans pretorius phd dissertation writing

For his doctoral dissertation on numerical simulation of gravitational collapse, Pretorius received the Nicholas Metropolis Award of the American Physical Society.^[1] From to he was a Richard Chase Tolman Fellow at the California Institute of Technology.

He then became an assistant professor in at the University of Alberta and in at Princeton University.

Research

His research deals with numerical